https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/virginia-data-center-ran-diesel-155848282.html?guccounter=1

Diesel fumes are my worst enemy. I will be hiking two kilometers away from a town generator and catch a perceptible whiff of the stuff carried by the wind. It’s legitimately one of the worst things about living in my patch of the global south, the sheer scale of dirtily burning dirty diesel everywhere. Neighborhood power, rich people fuckoff mansions, giant poorly maintained American truck trucks (not pickups), old boilers, the black smoke from the power station I see every day in traffic, diesel is an inescapable nightmare for me. The smell. The grime! We are not importing clean diesel and all this smoke is extra sooty, and I even wonder if we’ve been getting leaded gasoline. It’s so fucked. Even when the oil and gas industry is having a stable year it’s like this.

Anyway I paid almost an entire fucking months salary on filling my house’s diesel tank a few weeks ago and apparently it went up by almost 20% since only then. Wood stoves are not completely uncommon in rural areas here and even shitty waste firewood is supposedly getting really expensive. What the fuck

Yeah anyway this nonsense data center rollout is gross regardless but I don’t think everyone here appreciates how existentially disgusting living in real life a postwar-dieselpunk society actually is. It’s a fine fuel for many things. We are killing ourselves with it.

so, any good free ai models on american servers to try?

we may have to start making excuses for the lack of terror

what are all the guns even for

minorities

tech billionaires are a minority

Weak Americans wouldnt last 10 seconds in victorian britain

I have a suggestion to stop it.

I suggest force fem

Well I was going to say Call of Duty World at War has suggestions, but I mean I would like to try HRT.

The planet's dyin', Cloud.

They actually could if they wanted to. Easily in fact. I know it is silly to be mad at them for lying about it.

Why would the Virginia government go agains the wishes of the residents who voted them in to prop up data centers?

Death to Amerikkka and unlimited good health to all who live

Hey how's the strait of Hormuz these days?

"Couldn't" or "Wouldn't"?

I love that people are willing to all individually leave their homes rather than go deal with the source of the problem directly. Americans are such good little piggies they will do anything their overlords demand of them rather than even consider doing something to fix the obvious sources of problems

Citizens are not allowed to cross property lines, unlike the severe externalities of the data center.

Because the cops would probably shoot them if they did. People with generally stable lives and families are usually pretty risk adverse unless things get really bad. Having to go stay in a Motel 6 for a few days ain't that bad compared to getting a Billy club to the head.

These are most likely Republiklanners. They’re cattle, they probably left so they could pay for the diesel

Americans were all full-blown anarchists during covid and swore up and down covid is worth it for them to mindlessly consoom! They think the same thing over climate change.

But when porky does it? “Well, he’s rich, and I like rich people. So I’ll obey! Porky’s the winner!”

Not anarchists, but ANCAPS, literally saying fuck you to the government trying to shield them so they could go buy their treats.

It's cuz they knew violating Covid rules probably wouldn't incite direct police violence (if they're white). Storming a data center would likely result in you at least getting pepper sprayed.

But that would be a crime!

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